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DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1730017
Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Colorectal Cancer Surgery in Madrid
Funding The authors declare that they have received no funding to perform the study and write the present article.Abstract
Introduction The Covid-19 pandemic has had an important impact on colorectal cancer surgery, for hospital resources had to be redistributed in favour of Covid-19 patients. The aim of the present study is to analyze our results in colorectal oncologic surgery during the Covid-19 pandemic in patients with and without perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Methods In total, 32 patients (19 male and 13 female patients), with a mean age of 64 years (range: 57.2 to 69.5 years) with colorectal cancer underwent surgery under the recommendations of surgical societies included in a protocol. Data collection included clinical characteristics (gender, age, body mass index, American Society of Anesthesiologists score, tumor location, preoperative staging, lymphopenia), data related to SARS-CoV-2 infection (postoperative symptoms, diagnostic tests), operative details (surgical procedure, approach, duration, stoma), pathological outcomes (tumor stage, number of lymph nodes harvested, distal and circumferential radial margins, quality of the total mesorectal excision), and surgical outcomes (morbidity, mortality, hospital stay, and the rates of reoperation and readmission).
Results A total of 3 (9.4%) patients who underwent colorectal surgery during the Covid-19 pandemic were infected by SARS-CoV-2 in the postoperative period. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was associated with Covid-19 (6.2% versus 33.3%; p = 0.042), and surgical morbidity was higher among Covid-19 patients (100% versus 37.9%; p = 0.039). There were not significant differences between COVID-19 patients and non-COVID-19 patients in relation to the rest of the analyzed outcomes.
Conclusion During the Covid-19 pandemic, colorectal cancer surgery should be performed according to the recommendations of surgical societies. However, Covid-19 patients could present a higher morbidity rate.
Keywords
colorectal cancer surgery - Covid-19 pandemic - SARS-CoV-2 infection - surgical patients - oncological surgeryConclusion
Colorectal cancer surgery should be performed during the Covid-19 pandemic under safe conditions and according to the recommendations of surgical societies. However, the rate of morbidity was higher among patients with confirmed Covid-19 who underwent surgery for colorectal cancer.
Ethical Approval
Ethical approval is not required due to retrospective character of the study.
Publikationsverlauf
Eingereicht: 02. November 2020
Angenommen: 18. Januar 2021
Artikel online veröffentlicht:
03. Juni 2021
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